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Wednesday, January 18th, 2012Theme caught up for WordPress 2.7
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009Took me a bit of doing but I’ve updated my old theme to work with the latest version of WordPress. Most of the effort and time was taken up because I decided to do it in as much the, so to speak, right way as possible.
Other than changing two lines of functions.php, everything is accomplished using CSS.
If you want it, you can grab my theme.
Updates and hopefully a return
Thursday, May 7th, 2009I have finally gotten around to updating my blog to the latest version of WordPress (I used to be horribly behind). As you may have noticed, I am back at the default theme; I will likely do something about this eventually; you may have to bear with me until then, if you haven’t already left due to my extended silence.
Speaking of that whole silence thing; I’m hoping to return to posting more often than I may have in the past (not that I haven’t said that before). For right now, I’m focusing on being in flux and getting things back to where they were; with luck it’ll just involve writing some new css to go with the default theme. To get those square boxes, borders and the like back; perhaps fit to width as well.
Anyway, just wanted to break silence and let you guys know that that’s my intent for future times.
My fourth birthday was in Rochester, NY
Friday, January 4th, 2008It’s the 4th of January in a new year and, if you’ve followed me this far, you might recall that this is the anniversary of gwax’s rumblings’ fp (first post). Although it’s been a slow year and I’ve gotten pretty lazy about updating regularly, I’ve been doing this for four years and I’m not planning to stop just yet. Speaking of anniversaries, you might recall the sychronicity of my blog sharing a birthday with Uncyclopedia, which just turned three.
The Magical Anniversary
Thursday, January 4th, 2007Today marks the third anniversary of this blog’s inception. Fancy that, I’ve been spewing crap onto the internet for three whole years; go me! I don’t know that I’m contributing more to the internet than this-one-quirky-guy-who’s-done-some-stuff’s opinion but I was never promising much more than that and I like to think that the this-one-quirky-guy-who’s-done-some stuff is a lot interesting than many of those people that have converted myspace and livejournal into festering hives of angst. Heck, without this blog we wouldn’t have ever seen the likes of my solution for stuck LCD pixels or my answer to the chicken and egg debate (my records show that you people really dig these things). Anyway, happy third anniversary my blog and thanks to all my readers for, well, reading.
Oh, and it’s the magical anniversary because three is the magical number. I mean, surely you’ve read fairy tales. Right? Anyway, magical or whatever, three is my favorite number so it’s still special.
Neutral Nets and Rockets that go Boom
Friday, June 23rd, 2006I’ve started watching the daily vlog (please tell me I’m not becoming hip) Rocketboom because it covers issues that interest me in a style that I like and the host(ess) is cute. I mention this to you today both because I’ve been watching it long enough to think that it’s worth mentioning to the rest of you and because they actually did something that caused me to pause and take note. Today’s Rocketboom is probably the best piece I have yet seen on the topic of net neutrality; don’t get me wrong, Ask A Ninja did a fine piece on net neutrality too but the piece by Rocketboom does a really good job of explaining why net neutrality is a really important issue and why everyone needs to tell their governmental representatives to keep our internet free. I really don’t want to find myself, ten years from now, lamenting over the way the internet used to be.
Migrations and Upgrades: Expect Downtime
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006I have, just recently, gotten a spiffy Speakeasy DSL connection installed at my home for my personal use. The DSL connection provides me with 3.0Mbps/768kbps (up/down) speeds and a number of static IP addresses, which means that I can finally move my server out of an MIT closet. This move will take a few hours during which time my server will be completely down and then there will be a lag time as the DNS servers are updated to reflect the change. So, what I’m saying is, expect a day or so of downtime for all of gwax.[com,net,org], including mail services, sometime in the near future.
After the migration, there’ll be another fun server happening, namely a rather big upgrade. I’ve been thinking of upgrading my server since I got a properly paying job and I happened to be browsing the Dell website when I noticed that they were selling rather fancy equipment at rather large discounts. Long story short, in a couple weeks, I should have a brand-spanking new Dell PowerEdge SC430 server with a 2.8GHz Dual Core Pentium D, 1GB DDR2 RAM and 160GB SATA Hard Drive space, which was discounted from $976 to $499. This machine is going to be an absolute beast, totally blowing all of my other computers out of the water (there’s Moore’s Law for you). So, after that beast arrives, I’ll get it set up with all of the services that my current server provides, slowly migrate serving responsibilities over (which ought to be transparent to all of you) and then retire my current server to some other menial task.
There is, of course, one question left to answer: what should I name my new machine?
Second Needless Banter Anniversary
Wednesday, January 4th, 2006Right now, this blog is about half an hour away from two years since fp (first post). Happy two years putting up with my yammering, Internet. To commemorate the occasion, I’ve found this fantastically keen plugin that generates an image showing what time of day I post. I’ve decided to set it to report over the past 351 days, for obvious reasons. The graph is displayed here and should also appear at the bottom of pages.
New WordPress Theme
Monday, September 19th, 2005I’ve finally gotten around to doing a full workup of my WordPress theme so as to provide a style more in line with the style that I use on my homepage and also to bring my blog up to XHTML 1.1 compliance. Being only one man, I haven’t been able to do a complete QA workup of the theme so if you see anything that looks wrong, doesn’t work on your browser (I’ve tested Firefox 1.0.6 and IE 6.0 under Windows XP some) or doesn’t validate to XHTML 1.1, please let me know so that I can fix it. Beyond that, I’ll try to find any problems that I can.
Also, I’ve decided to stop using nested comments and to get rid of the comment preview box because I was the only person using the nested comments and the live preview box didn’t work well enough for my tastes.
Category 22 — Games
Thursday, August 11th, 2005SonicWALL Internet Security offers content filtering services and via their website, you can look up the rating (right column, down a little) of a website. Apparently, my blog is rated “Category 22 — Games”, while my homepage is “Category 64 — Unrated”. I guess that means that I run a gaming blog; fancy that.
Statistics again
Tuesday, July 12th, 2005I have set up the StatTraq plugin for wordpress to handle gathering statistical information on my blog and have made it publicly viewable for anyone that cares. There is also a small “Statistics” link in the Meta section of my sidebar now. In order to get it working, I started with StatTraq 1.0b and hand applied the patches from adsworth. So yeah, statistics are up and you should feel free to take a look at them.
Obviously, the statistics are incomplete as they only begin tracking as of a day ago.
Debian and R-Type form…
Friday, May 6th, 2005With their powers combined, Debian and R-type form my new server setup. Since I was getting pretty sick of using VNC to connect to r-type when I needed to change or fix something, I decided to get Linux up and running on it instead of Windows 2k. Having gone through the process, r-type is now running Debian, which gives me the wonderful powers of SSH and apt-get. SSH is the part that I really care about because I can now futz with things from my sidekick, any Linux machine and any Windows machine that I can put PuTTY on.
As a side advantage, I’ve managed to get SSL working so now I can deal with administering my blog and phpmyadmin over a secure connection.
Upgraded to 1.5 enough
Tuesday, April 19th, 2005As far as I’m concerned, the migration to WordPress 1.5 has been sufficiently dealt with. I haven’t got statistics up yet but that’s because the current version of StatTraq doesn’t work with my permalink structure and is kind of hacked for WordPress 1.5; thusly, I will wait for STatTraq 1.0b before really caring much.
Also, nested comments.
Nested Categories in WordPress 1.5 with Kubrick
Tuesday, April 19th, 2005After upgrading to WordPress 1.5, I spent a rather long time hunting through documentation trying to figure out how to display my categories in a nested fashion. It turns out to be the case that all of the documentation is a little out of date with regards to the wp_list_cats and list_cats functions; to that end, here is how you can make nested categories in WordPress 1.5:
In wp-content/themes/{yourtheme}/sidebar.php change this:
<li><h2><?php _e('Categories'); ?></h2>
<ul>
<?php list_cats(0, '', 'name', 'asc', '',
1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0,'','','','','') ?>
</ul>
</li>
to this
<li><h2><?php _e('Categories'); ?></h2>
<ul>
<?php list_cats(0, '', 'name', 'asc', '',
1, 0, 1, 0, 1, 1, 0,'','','','','', 1) ?>
</ul>
</li>
Note the additional 1 in the list_cats call, this corresponds to hierarchical=1 for wp_list_cats; the hierarchical option is not listed in documentation as of right now but can be found by rummaging through the code.
WordPress 1.5
Monday, April 18th, 2005I have upgraded my blog to WordPress 1.5, expect things to be in a bit of a flux state until I work out a few things. If you see anything missing, not working or just plain wrong, please leave me a comment.
Issues that I have identified so far are:
- (X)I need to make my categories display nested
- ( )I need to get my statistics page back
- (X)I need to play with the colors a bit more
- ( )I need to get my google search highlighting back
- (X)Post categories should come at the begining of posts
Again, if you see anything else, please let me know.
Comment Spam (an aside)
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2005Comment spam pisses me off. It’s not terribly hard to get rid of in WordPress but I don’t like having to. What’s worse is that this is why I installed one of those fancy image authentication things.
Let’s take a moment to think about spam. Most people don’t like spam and it doesn’t work on most people. Spam is a very cheap form of advertising but not free. In order for spam to continue to exist, there have to be at least a small number of people that respond to spam and to those people I say, STOP BEING A FUCKING RETARD, YOU DON’T NEED WHAT THEY’RE SELLING AND YOU ARE RUINING THINGS FOR THE REST OF US!
200th and Classes
Tuesday, February 1st, 2005Well, today is the first day of classes of my last semester as an undergraduate and this is also my 200th post.
This leaves two things to discuss and I’ll start with the 200th post bit. 200 posts, hooray! Ok, that’ll do for that.
So, first day of classes, I guess that I might as well give a bit of a preview of what this term is going to look like for me. I’ve got my schedule narrowed down to only having classes on Tuesdays and Thursdays so I intend to use this fact to work on my thesis on Mondays and Wednesdays and get three day weekends as well. I’ve also got a pretty nice class loadout to go with my beautiful schedule. I am taking 3.063: Polymer Physics, 11.125: Exploring K-12 Classroom Teaching, and 21M.600: Introduction to Acting. This term is going to be totally sweet.
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